Committees of the House  The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples states in article 21: Indigenous peoples have the right, without discrimination, to the improvement of their economic and social conditions, including, inter alia, in the areas of education, employment, vocational training and retraining, housing,-- I underscore the word “housing”. It goes on: --sanitation, health and social security. It is a disgrace, that goes beyond comprehension, that Canada, a nation that was so long a leader at the United Nations in support of the rights of first nations and indigenous peoples, was among those four nations that voted against this declaration.

Business of Supply  Article 21(1) states: Indigenous peoples have the right, without discrimination, to the improvement of their economic and social conditions, including...in the areas of education, employment, vocational training and retraining, housing, sanitation, health and social security. What we have seen consistently from the government, with its unbalanced economic agenda and its neglect of the working and middle class families, is a continuing neglect of first nations, Métis and Inuit in our country.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The only other point one would add is that the defence counsel doesn't have the right to compel witnesses to come before the commission. So if they get disclosure, and it is double or triple hearsay evidence that's been sanitized through hearsay, they don't have the opportunity of compelling the person who was the originator of the information to come before the military commission so they can challenge the credibility of the evidence.

Airline Passenger Bill of Rights  It is really important to acknowledge that those people were stuck on a plane for over 10 hours without the proper hygiene, nourishment or supports. They were having to sit in those seats for a long period of time. The basic health and sanitation systems had failed on the plane, and it took a 911 call to get some action. That is enough to say if this extreme situation is going to happen in our country, in our nation's capital, there needs to be a change.

Environment committee  That's on page 4 of the testimony before this committee on February 6, 2008. “Dislocations” is a bit of a sanitized word, but what it really means is job losses. That translates into a very important human cost, one that the opposition intentionally designs in naming a just transition fund. Remember, they accept in clause 10 that the transition under this bill to these targets will be anything but just for working families.

Afghanistan  That can only be done through the creation of long lasting community-based infrastructure related to transportation, sanitation, water, sewer, roads, bridges, educational infrastructure and health care infrastructure. This is really what the people of Afghanistan have been crying out for. They recognize the need for protection, but they also need to recognize that in order for them to rebuild their country, its democratic institutions and its basic ability for its own citizens to eke out a legitimate living and build those democratic institutions, they do indeed need the support of the international community to focus in, in a very meaningful, thoughtful and effective way, on aid and reconstruction.

Afghanistan  Canada has invested over $50 million in the national solidarity program, which gives rural Afghans, especially women, the opportunity to have a voice in the development process. This process identifies community needs such as: safe drinking water and sanitation, transport, irrigation, electricity, education, health, public buildings, and improvements in agriculture. These initiatives greatly help to eradicate the widespread poverty and inequality that contributes to the problem of human trafficking.

Foreign Affairs  Through organizations such as the Red Cross and Médecins Sans Frontières, we will be providing clean water and sanitation, emergency health care, food and shelter, and increasing coordination of emergency services. Today's announcement means more humanitarian aid for those in Chad and Darfur.

Afghanistan  One project at a time, they help to identify community needs, such as safe drinking water and sanitation, transport, irrigation, electricity, education, health, public buildings and improvements in agriculture. There are more than 33,600 local infrastructure projects approved, with over 16,500 completed.

Canadian Heritage committee  The concern is that you were listed as secretary of the company until February 26, which was the same day as the story appeared in the Chronicle Herald in Halifax that you were being appointed to that. The question I guess it raises is, were you in fact trying to sanitize your resumé by coming off the company at that time because it was having problems?

Canadian Heritage committee  In the matter of business judgment, the questions of how you perform and if you are trying to hide something when you're being appointed, I think, are very relevant in terms of qualifications, for that reason. I guess my question stands: were you trying to sanitize your record on the day this came out?

Canadian Heritage committee  Mr. Chair, I would ask the member to clarify what he means by “sanitize”.

Public Safety committee  Law enforcement and Taser International speak of the fact that the taser renders subjects incapacitated and unable to fight back. While this may be true, this is a thoroughly sanitized description of what happens to someone who is subjected to the taser. What is missing from the debate and what concerns the commission is that a pain compliance technique is being wholeheartedly advocated without a full appreciation of the impact on the human body or a full understanding of the circumstances in which RCMP members are using the device.

Natural Resources committee  A Bloc member has not been appointed. A Liberal hasn't been appointed. Ms. Bell has not been appointed. So this is a sanitized, filtered study, which is being carried on apparently at the same time as the all-party study. You're right. We can deal with the press in whatever fashion we want. If the minister saw fit to conclude that this committee will not do its job properly, and that's one clear inference to be taken from this parallel study having been undertaken, would that he had seen fit to appoint not just Conservative members but members, for instance, from the Bloc and from the Liberal Party.

Transport committee  The culture of safety cannot be legislated. Our research has shown that Transport Canada is using sanitized statistics to support their safety claims, as we pointed out in our letter of April 22. Transport Canada is telling us we have the safest aviation system in the world. They said the same thing ten years ago, in the SATOPS final report, yet many of the same issues discussed in that report continue to exist today.